Wales

The month of March was dominated by our holiday to the UK. It's a long flight home but undaunted by the fatigue we decided to drive from Heathrow to meet John's parents in their caravan in Wales coast on our arrival. Well I suppose it was John who really decided this and as punishment we had horrendous downpours and survived the journey on a large amount of caffiene. The man in Costa coffee was impressed by a large coffee and double expresso chaser, even more when he saw the 2 cans of red bull for emergency use....both of which were used.

John had been doing major research on things to do in Wales and discovered it is littered with old railways and as luck would have it was able to find one running during our stay. We took a return to the Dolgoch Falls- getting off 3/4 of the way along the line to have an hour to wander around before catching the train as it went home again. As you can see we really packed well for the great outdoors but nothing gets in the way of an idiotic photo pose! The weather just about held (just a bit of sleet) and our journey back was liven up by various incidents with sheep on the line- How British (or Welsh) is that!

The weather then got worse (still very British) as a storm rolled in from the Atlantic- we had a couple of interesting nights in the caravan. It didn't blow away which was a bonus but with strong winds it was quite hairy to say the least and all the rain meant the the site got quite waterlogged- more about that later.

The visit to the caravan also meant we could stop by John's Aunt and Uncle and see his Gran- Millie's the second Great GrandDaughter so far neatly sandwiching the 3 boys that have gone before so I think Johns Gran was pleased to meet her!


Archie just ran around apart as usual not paying much attention to anything until the ham and cheese came out. Archie already was showing signs that he was pickign up a lot of new words although I am not sure the use of Brie is going to be too helpful for him!

It was great to see everyone but as was going to be the norm we couldn't stay too long and soon we had to leave for John's parents in Burton on Trent. The car ( a very nice Audi A6) was packed meticulously in the rain and finally after many typical Henington 'is the window open' moments we left....but not quite as first the car got stuck in the water logged grass- typical! After a lot of phones we were finally rescued and towed from the bog by a nice man in an Astra!!


Right off we go!!!